By Rick Wolcott* The North Central Jurisdiction Black Methodists for Church Renewal (BMCR) and the Commission on Religion & Race (CORR) held their joint annual meetings in the East Ohio Conference October 3-5. Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, resident bishop of the new Ohio Episcopal Area consisting of the East Ohio and West Ohio Conferences was unable [...]
By Brett Hetherington* “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The words from Spanish philosopher George Santayana have been repeated so frequently that you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard them before. The best way to remember our collective past is to re-tell its stories. On September 21 [...]
By Brett Hetherington* The targeted firebombing, looting and vandalism of the Hough Uprising that rocked the Cleveland neighborhood July 18-24, 1966, began after the white owners of the Seventy-Niners Café refused to serve a glass of water to a Black customer. Nearly six decades later the East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church played [...]
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